pg_timezone_abbrevs — PostgreSQL system view

Summary

The view pg_timezone_abbrevs provides a list of time zone abbreviations that are currently recognized by the datetime input routines. The contents of this view change when the timezone or timezone_abbreviations run-time parameters are modified.

(Description quoted from the official PostgreSQL documentation.)

Columns

The pg_timezone_abbrevs system view exposes the following columns (names, types and descriptions are taken verbatim from the PostgreSQL documentation):

• abbrev text
  Time zone abbreviation
• utc_offset interval
  Offset from UTC (positive means east of Greenwich)
• is_dst bool
  True if this is a daylight-savings abbreviation

Version applicability

Present in PostgreSQL 17, 18, 19 (verified against each release’s documentation). This is a long-standing system object that also exists in earlier PostgreSQL releases.

Related & references

• PostgreSQL system catalog & view index
• Built-in function reference

Reference: PostgreSQL documentation — pg_timezone_abbrevs.